It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
Clay ShirkyThe waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
Clay ShirkyCivic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.
Clay ShirkyTime Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
Clay Shirky